9 Health Care Stock Picks From Index-Crushing Fund

Jean Hynes is keeping the streak alive at Vanguard Health Care, the No. 1 stock fund over the past 30 years.

Whenever a top-performing money manager retires, his successor faces extra pressure to generate outsize returns. But few second-generation managers have tried to fill shoes as large as the pair Jean Hynes stepped into in January of 2013. When Ed Owens left her in charge of the Vanguard Health Care Fund (ticker: VGHCX) he had run since 1984, it was the single best-performing stock fund over that period, with annualized returns of 16.3%.

Hynes had spent 20 years working for Owens at Wellington Management, the Boston-based...